searching in folders

vmelkon · 09-14-2007, 07:08 PM

With Windows, it's possible to right click on a folder or a drive, select search. I can search for a specific file in that folder and can also search for certain words it contains.

I use Kubuntu and have used other distros as well, al of them KDE based.
The search option is not present.
It doesn't make sense since searching is a basic feature of a OS.

I have to click on start, find files and folders but that's not exactly what I want.

David the H. · 09-14-2007, 07:27 PM

In Konqueror, hit crtl+f or "tools >> find files". All the search features you want.

jschiwal · 09-14-2007, 07:43 PM

You can also use wildcards in the Konqueror address bar. In the console, there is the "find" command which you can use to search for files matching whatever criteria you want, such as the size, age, name, permissions, etc. The -exec option allows you to run a command on each file it finds, so you could for example search for all jpeg files with spaces in their name (including in subdirectories if you want) and then replace the spaces with underscores.

vmelkon · 09-15-2007, 02:12 AM

Thanks. I hadn't noticed that in konqerer.
I'm less likely to use the console